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The Soul's Conflict with Itself
The souls conflict with it self, and victory over it self by faith a treatise of the inward disquietments of distressed spirits, with comfortable remedies to establish them / by R. Sibbs ...The soules conflict with it selfe, and victory over it self by faith a treatise of the inward disquietments of distressed spirits, with comfortable remedies to establish them / by R. Sibbs ...
London: printed by M.F. for R. Dawlman, 1635
THE SOULS CONFLICT with it self. › Chapter 22THE SOVLES CONFLICT with it selfe. › Chapter 22
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
2. When that which is wanting in 1grief, is made up in fear. Here there is […] great cause of complaint of the •nt of grief, for this holy affection is 2[…] band of the soul, whereby it is •pt from starting from God and his •yes.
2. When that which is wanting in 1gri•fe, is made up in feare. Here there is 〈…〉 great cause of complaint of the •nt of griefe, for this holy affection is 2〈…〉 •band of the soule, whereby it is •pt from starting from God and his •yes.
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- 2Fear is the awband of the soulFeare is the awbād of the soul
3. When after grief we find in 1•rd peace; for true grief being Gods orke in us, he knows best how to easure it. Therefore, whatsoever e God brings my soul into, I am […] rest in his goodness, and not except against his dealing. That peace and joy, ich riseth from grief in the use of eanes, and makes the soul more able and thankful to God, and less